I Apologise...

Yes I am obsessed with my new limitless limbs stamps AND with Christmas cards, I'm sure I warned you in a previous post?...Er this one is for the Basic Grey Challenge blog which has a Christmas theme this week (so that absolves of all responsibility for this Christmas card).

Tee Hee. Off to make some more Christmas cards - Mmmm what stamp should I use....?



EDIT: I've had a suprise comment on this card from Melissa of Pink Cat Studio Fame, I think she must have seen how obsessed I am with her stamps and has asked to put this card into the Pink Cat Studio Gallery :) How exciting is that? Thank You Melissa :)

Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio Limitless Limbs
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry from Sassy Crafts
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Koh-i-noor watercolours
Usual Suspects - Double-sided Tape; 3D-foam; Trimmer; Scissors; Glue dots
Other - Circle template; Crop-a-dile; Ribbon; Coloured Staples

Another Kaboodle Doodle Chrimbo Card

Well after doing yesterdays Kaboodle Doodle Challenge card I just kept going and here is another Christmas card using the Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright kit. Great fun getting covered in glitter putting this card together. I used double-sided tape and loose glitter, if you have ever done that you will know that the glitter just gets everywhere. I am now finding it in various rooms around the flat.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright Kit
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; 3D-foam pads; Glue dots; Trimmer
Other - Glitter; Brads; Ribbon

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Number 10

Christmas has reached us at Kaboodle Doodle. Well ok, we have skipped from Halloween straight into Christmas, I don't want to scare you but those Christmas cards ain't going to be done by anyone else now are they? So this week hows about getting started with some bright and cheery Christmas colours? I've used the new, about to be launched, Kaboodle Doodle Christmas kit for my card this week.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Merry and Bright
Inks - VersaColor Blue
Other - Free glitter chipboard from a magazine; Fine marker pen; Index card
Usual Suspects - Trimmer; Scissors; 3-D foam pads; Double-sided tape; Glue dots

Christmas Trees

Been playing with my Limitless Limbs stamps from Pink Cat Studio and thinking about Christmas. So here is a card using circles cut from patterned paper stamped with one of the tree stamps.


Materials:
Stamp - Limitless limbs; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Rangers Distress Ink Walnut Stain
Colouring - Koh-i-noor Watercolours; H2O Twinkies
Other - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas brads; Circle template;
Usual suspects - Scissors; Trimmers; Silicon glue; double-sided tape

Sassy Crafts DT Call

I thought I might have a go at the DT call going on for Sassy Crafts. The challenge is to make three projects as outlined on the Sassy Crafts blog:

1 - A stamped project:
A new Christmas card for you.


Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; HOTP
Papers - Basic Grey; note paper
Colouring - Derwent pencils and sansodor
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Adirondack Rust
Other - Glitter glue; Fimo clay; brads; Flower soft


2 - A favourite piece
It is difficult to pick a favourite piece, my thoughts change daily on the matter! But here is one I made a few months ago. I love how the embossing works on the designer paper and highlighted with inks. Then there was the fun I had with the flower, wire, tab and beads as well.


Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay; HOTP
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; VersaColor pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry
Equipment - Cuttlebug and embossing folders; Crop-a-dile
Other - Beads; eyelet; metallic thread; wire


3 - A project that contains 4 squares, 3 small and 1 large
And not that I'm getting Christmas obsessed or anything but here is another Christmas card :)


Materials:
Papers - BasicGrey Mellow; 7Gypsies
Inks - Distress Inks Walnut Stain, fired brick; tea dye; peeled paint
Other - Shapes designed by me; Cardboard; Seam ripper

It Is Going To Be A Pink Christmas

The Christmas cards are coming along slowly.... I've made one or two - is it cheating to use leftovers from last year?

I'm loving distressing papers at the moment. I don't have a specialised tool such as the Tim Holtz widgit or the Heidi Swapp pacman (don't you think it looks just like a pink pacman?) but I do sew and my seam ripper does the trick and is a lot cheaper and easier to get hold of seeing as any haberdashery shop should have one.

The lovely stamped image is one of Alison Acton's lovely illustrations available from Whiff of Joy and was coloured using my Derwent colour pencils and sansodor to blend. Glitter glue finished the trim and silver metallic gel pen for the bell on the Cat's ribbon. The sentiment was also coloured with the pencils.

For the background I used a 4" by 4" piece of textured card cut into smaller pieces and coloured with the same pencils and blending technique as for the stamped image. The outside edge of the 4" by 4" was over-stamped with the HOTP swirl in silver. Finally each edge of the smaller pieces was distressed with the seam ripper.




Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy; HOTP Sentiment
Ink - VersaMark; VersaColor Silver; VersaFine Onyx Black
Papers - Homemade
Colouring - Derwent Colour pencils; Sansodor; Inscribe Pastels
Equipment - Seam ripper; Cuttlebug; Cuttlebug snowflake emboss and die
Other - Foam pads; silicon glue; Stipple brush; Stickles Glitter Glue; Sliver Gel pen

The Challenge That Keeps on Giving.....

In the Summer I joined in a fab challenge run by Susan Daly. Susan sent me, and others around the blogosphere, some fabby Stampin'Up goodies with the idea that we make some projects with the goodies and blog them. In my last blog one of the comments I got suggested using the paper for a Christmas card - What a good idea - so here you are.



Materials:
From Stampin'Up Susan Daly
Papers - Gold, green double sided papers, red card

From My Stash
Stamps - HOTP swirl and sentiment
Inks - VersaMark; Distress Ink Walnut Stain; VersaColor Gold
Other - Ink it up gold embossing powder; Seam ripper; Black card

More Christmas Cards

Another Christmas card, this one is for the Basic Grey challenge blog which this week is all about the Scallops. All the scallops have been hand scalloped (is that a verb? I scallop, you scallop, he scallops, we all scallop) using a circle template, scissors and craft knife and can be found on the long sides of the patterned paper, the circle with the poinsettia mounted upon it and then the bottom of the card itself. Do you think that is enough scalloping for one card?



Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey Dasher
Inks - Distress Ink green
Others - Ribbons; Gems; Stickles Glitter glue
Equipment - Circle template; scissors; craft knife

Another Christmas Card

This one is for Friday Sketchers and uses some of Krista's papers but actually not a Christmas set but her gorgeous Cabana set which has more of a Summer feel to it.



Materials:
Stamp - snowflake homemade; Personal Impressions
Papers - Designs by Krista Cabana
Other - Acetate; Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; snowflake brad; cord; glitter; embossing glue; heat tool

Christmas Angels

I was naughty and bought some Core'dination papers recently. Couldn't wait to try them out so I used them for this week's Friday Sketchers Challenge which has a fab sketch from Carole.




Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy, HOTP
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - Versafine black, Versacolor White, blue and purple
Card - Blue cardstock; Core'dinations
Equipment - printed sentiment; Cuttlebug
Other - wire; snowflake charm

Christmas Brights

I'm dreaming of a bright Christmas and here is a bright tag to go with it :) This one is for Tag You're It which has a Christmas in August theme this week.



Materials:
Stamp - Hero Arts; HOTP
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry
Colouring - Twinkies H2O
Inks - VersaFine black
Others - Ribbons; crop-a-dile; eyelet